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Georgia cuts juvenile justice budget; our JJIE.org is watching

August 30, 2010 – 12:38 am

Our Center for Sustainable Journalism is trying an experiment in niche journalism. Our Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE.org) is the only journalism entity in Georgia reporting on juvenile justice issues daily and persistently. We owe it to the 20,000 kids, the families and employees touched by the system and affected by the policies that the [...]

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Social media use rate doubles for internet users over age 50

August 28, 2010 – 12:49 pm

This from the Pew Internet & American Life Project: While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled-from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May [...]

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Knight invests $2.23 million in technology, community engagement

August 24, 2010 – 2:32 pm

The Knight Foundation announced today it is investing more than $2 million in five projects that “use the latest digital tools to help people connect for the greater good.” The funding is provided via its Knight Technology for Engagement Initiative . Plus there will be more future funding available. The Knight press release says: Knight [...]

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Welcome AJC Job Page Readers, Learn More About LinkedIn

August 22, 2010 – 9:25 am

Welcome to those of you who picked up the printed edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Sunday job section and found the interview with me, Leonard Witt, about how to find a job using social media. As mentioned in the article our marketing expert Carole Arnold produced an excellent slide share presentation on how to effectively [...]

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Free legal help available for online journalism start-ups and media creators

August 20, 2010 – 5:35 pm

If you have been following this site, you probably know that on September 25 our Center for Sustainable Journalism is hosting the Media Law in the Digital Age workshop with the Harvard University Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It is happening right here on the campus of Kennesaw State University and is [...]

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Patch.com to hire dozens of Atlanta metro journalists

August 19, 2010 – 6:25 pm

Patch.com, the hyperlocal journalism start-up on which AOL is betting $50 million dollars, is searching for several dozen journalists to edit and run local community sites throughout the Atlanta metro area. The pay is between $35,000 — $45,000 a year plus benefits. It comes with a freelance budget too. Here are excerpts from an email [...]

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Journalist’s Resource: New site to help journalism educators

August 17, 2010 – 3:37 pm

I just received notice of this nifty website to help journalism educators in classrooms and I perused the feature writing syllabus. It’s very good. The site was created and is maintained by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and is part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the [...]

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Untapped consumer resource: 61% want to help improve products

August 13, 2010 – 5:49 pm

If you have $499, you can get a the full Forrester Research report: US Consumers Are Willing Co-Creators or you can just chew on this little teaser from Forrester: Sixty-one percent of all US online adults are willing co-creators, and they are open to co-creating across a large range of industries. With such wide-ranging interest [...]

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Robert Picard: Journalism is in good health

August 12, 2010 – 1:35 pm

Robert G. Picard, Hamrin Professor in media economics at the Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, and a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at University of Oxford, says journalism is healthy, although news organizations are not. Here are a couple pieces of the complete Picard interview conducted by Nikhil Moro, associate [...]

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Yahoo Media VP Says Niche, We Say JJIE

July 6, 2010 – 3:13 pm

James A. Pitaro, vice president of Yahoo Media, told a New York Times reporter: “If you’re a news start-up, focusing on breadth would be the wrong way to go. What we’re seeing is the market getting increasingly fragmented. And because of that you can survive by owning a niche category.” Of course, we at the [...]